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I'll look forward to experiencing that one day then. Not likely to be for a while, or at least not until Carmine Pariante and his Kings' College colleagues get out of the f. way.

I couldn't play darts any more, not because of the effort of throwing the darts, but because of the sitting down and standing up between turns. Wiped me out. I tried leaning in the corner for the whole game, but that meant that I had to stand up the whole time. Perhaps a chair on a plinth with...

All this guy has to do is listen to 20 million patients. Probably never occurred to him.

Not if Dr Brian "let's see what Edward Shorter has to say" Wallit has a chance to influence anything.

I don't trust the phrase "tailored to the individual". As usual, when words and phrases are used by the BPS crowd whatever meaning they used to have masks a new interpretation, and we are permanently playing catch-up. If a therapist decides that this individual patient needs GET, then they have...

If the authors are looking for a new project that involves browsing and stating the bleedin' obvious, they may like to walk into any German pharmacy and see how many of the products on offer have any evidential basis for the health claims that they make. Or they could look at all the adverts on...

The conclusion doesn't say whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. Perhaps they could have been clearer and written a more comprehensive conclusion as follows: Conclusions: The authors were relieved to find that only 2.08% (21/1009) of publicly available psychosocial wellness and stress...

I would like to posit the notion that this is decidedly iffy.

I wasn't aware that I needed an invitation. The presumption in that first sentence is more than enough to put me off reading the rest of it.

I misread the title of this thread as "PEM and swearing?" and was just about to dive in. Ahem. I haven't noticed any increase in sweating since having ME, during PEM or otherwise.

Yes that's right, I read it lazily. Mendiola was bringing an action against Stanford and Montoya. She's dropped it.

Eating always perks me up a bit. But then it did before I had ME - I'm one of those people who gets incredibly grumpy and irritable and feel faint and ill when I'm hungry. Always have been. So I learnt never to leave the house without breakfast, even if it makes me late, because I don't want to...

Many ME sufferers also have, or have had, mental health issues, and have got the help and treatment they need. Which shows what a lie it is to claim that we stigmatise mental illness. We can just tell the difference.

Saying something like this in the UK could go horribly wrong.

Hmm. It's the "creative" bit that's the problem. Perhaps he should have said "thing of beauty" instead.

It's not just the quackery, they have an organised and coordinated PR campaign against patients which is still ongoing. I'm sure that meets the definition of harassment.

Surely it is us who have been harassed by psychs with no understanding of our illness advancing their careers without a thought for our well-being? They are using our illness for their own self-aggrandisement without regard to the cost which we are bearing. Having no medical answers is bad...

... because the peer review process was working perfectly before? It's just been recently overwhelmed? I'm not sure "scientists worldwide" are that gullible, they just have to carry on the charade if they want to get anywhere. The whole system is broken, and Horton is a part of it.

She's been a physiotherapist for a quarter of a century, and in all that time never come across an M.E. patient?

I don't wish to be immodest, but surely if intelligence is negatively associated with FSS that proves that my symptoms cannot be FSS? And furthermore Seeing as one of our major symptoms is brainfog, haven't they got things the wrong way round in the case of ME? They may as well write a paper...